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Injustice 2 already revealed to have several Mortal Kombat Easter Eggs, which were discovered since it's release last year. Now we have yet another Easter Egg that was found, courtesy of your's truly.

If you look at the far left corner of the Joker's Playground stage in IJ2, you will see that there is a doll sitting there, with it's head stuck in a cavity in it's chest. That is a direct reference to Goro's Peek-A-Boo Fatality in Mortal Kombat XL.

Here is a video from my YouTube channel, showing the Easter Egg. Enjoy.

Mortal Kombat II was released at the Arcades a little bit over 25 years ago, and all of us can remember how amazing that game was. We all thought we have discovered everything about the game so far, but we were wrong.

A month ago, a YouTuber named Comon2680 has put a combo video that features an all new combo system that only now has been discovered for the game. With this combo system, you start a combo in the corner, either if you face the corner or stand next to it, and keep juggling the opponent by making sure you will be in the corner after the combo starts regardless where you were when you started the combo. This causes an all new list of Infinite combos, that are very difficult to do for the most part, but can take your opponent's entire life bar in seconds. These combos also can work against only certain characters in the game, those are the Male Ninjas, Raiden and Jax, so be cautions of that.

As you probably noticed by now, E3 this year is almost over, yet there was no sign of any kind to a new Mortal Kombat game from NetherRealm Studios. By the usual pattern, NRS release a new game every two years, with a new game from each franchise, Mortal Kombat and Injustice, every 4 years, which included so both Mortal Kombat 9 (2011) and Mortal Kombat X along with their complete updated iterations, Mortal Kombat (2011): Komplete Edition and Mortal Kombat XL. Yet there is no sign that shows any indication that a new Mortal Kombat is in the works for a release in 2019.

Well, now the reason has been revealed: The cycle of the 2 year pattern has been broken.

MK Co-Creator and had of NRS Ed Boon was interviewed for Giant Bomb along with several other developers, and at the beginning of the interview, Boon officially confirmed that there is indeed nothing in the works from NRS at the moment. The reason for that is NRS, along with Warner Bros Games, have decided to break the cycle, and according to Boon, too many people have been following this pattern. Boon said also that he wish he could've announce something, but there is nothing in the works for now.

You can see the whole interview here:

This marks the first time that the time length between 2 MK games is more then 4 years, which is the longest time yet. That is of course, unless NRS show anything in the very near future and all of this is just one big swerve for a planned shocker.

So yes, there is no new Mortal Kombat game at the moment. We will have to wait and see what will happen and when it will happen. And in the meantime, we can all still enjoy Mortal Kombat XL.

On August 22, 2016, a YouTuber named Lee Woods had set a World Record Speedrun for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which was set at the end for a record of 06:50. It should be noted however that Woods' record was set with the Coin door trick (a special trick that allows the player to speed up the winning portions of each round, also known for UMK3 in particular as the "Toasty Trick" due to the repeated sounds of the Toasty shouts from Dan Forden done by doing the Trick) and that he also started the timer when he selected the Master Ladder.

However, this past week, another YouTuber who is also a professional Mortal Kombat player, Ryan Neal AKA Ketchup (which is the name he gave himself after the original production code name for Sektor, his favorite character), did the same Speedrun only without the Coin door trick, and he started the timer when he selected Robo Smoke (the same character that Woods picked) rather then at the moment of selecting the Master Ladder, and he has done that in a record of 07:02.

Enjoy both videos as both awesome players setting the records for each format in UMK3.

After nearly 3 years since Mortal Kombat XL has been released, MK Co-Creator and head of NetherRealm Studios Ed Boon is on Twitter yet again, starting the hype for the next chapter in the iconic Mortal Kombat franchise. He sent this this Tweet, showing a street sign with title "Emperor Quang Trung", obviously a clear hint at the sorcerers Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, two of the most prominent antagonists of the series who were also the co-bosses of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, as well as the term "Emperor" which can refer to any of the Outworld emperors: Onaga the Dragon King, Shao Kahn, Mileena and Kotal Kahn.

One can only wonder what that title really leads to, and what will be the direction of the story for MK11. Only time will tell, but until then, all aboard the Mortal Kombat 11 hype train!